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Whenever I sing along to a song and there's a high part and I switch to falsetto, I just sound like I'm sounding stupid on purpose, whereas the actual singer sounds way better. Is there a technique to singing higher notes properly?

I'm not a professional vocal trainer, but I have been working with choirs (and been in them) I daresay most of my life now. Here are some stuff I picked up.

I'm with a group where there are basses who can falsetto to soprano range (just that A ... er... I don't remember my scale numbers. The A above the C one octave above the middle C). Fairly standard soprano A three octaves above the standard bass A.

Part if it is your breathing and support, and part of it is understanding how the sound comes out.

Imagine your falsetto note like the pilot light in a gas furnance. You don't want to push with your throat, you want to push with your diaphram, like adding gas to the pilot light. Pushing from your throat will change the tension and sound, and you'll go off pitch. After you get the hang of it, you can try experimenting with how loud you can get it. How loud will depend how well you can support from your diaphram and how long you can do it.

The second is understanding your voice. For example, everyone has a breakpoint between chest voice and head tone (falsetto), but there is usually some overlap.

My headtone around my breakpoint is really weak and I sound stupid. So sometimes when I need to come in strong, I would rather stretch my chest tone to cover that range. But, after it leaves that overlap, I'm okay.

So some of the things I do to alleviate that is to stretch my chest range up and my head tone range down. Try humming. Humming closed mouth as high as you can. Then open your mouth and keep humming (without opening the throat) and just visualize the airflow... then let the sound out.

I don't know how else to explain it, but when I have to belt my head tone, I feel like the vibration is an amplified hum. It comes a lot more from my nose/eyebrows than it comes from my throat.

The other thing is to not strain for high notes like you're struggling to reach for the cookies on the top shelf. Instead, visualize yourself reaching down from above it, like picking it up from a basket. So having a bigger range would definitely help. Why be scared of that A when you can hit a Bb? Imagine you're coming down instead.

So TL; DR:

Hum to your highest and lowest. Then open mouth hum. Let the quietest note out then push from diaphram. Practice.

Develop more of an overlap around yiur breakpoint. Be able to compensate with either one so your transitions aren't so awkward. Practice

Practice.

Also, was this a studio album or a live show? Studio albums are usually engineered so it gets the best sounds from the best takes. They also get trained in what they do. So don't worry about the actual singer sounding better. Work on being able to it yourself. That's what I think anyways.

I think the point Matt Mulholland makes is that he doesn't like falsetto. You can sing in a more comfortable voice and make sound the way it should sound, be it by going down an octave or adjusting the key, and it'll sound a lot better than trying to force a pitch that your voice isn't really able to hold.

There are a lot of people who can sing falsetto well. If you're not comfortable with that range then yea, you'll sound like an ass trumpet, but that's true for any range. Falsetto doesn't have to sound like Tiny Tim.

I can answer this! I am a vocal performance student who's studying that and music ed soon. Basically, you know that voice you use to mimic a siren of a police car or a fire truck? That's your falsetto. To produce a sound with a quality of not crap, you have to use breath support, which originates from your stomach, NOT your lungs. Breath like you did when you were a baby, and use your diaphragm to support the sound. I'm also a Tenor, so this is something I have been doing for a while.

Edit: What you think of is not a falsetto. Don't ever try to do a falsetto it's absolutely horrendous and terrible. What you're asking about is a light mechanism or a reinforced head-voice. The other part of the head-voice is the mixed head-voice. A falsetto is when you force air through your vocal chords, which creates a screechy, high pitched scream, and it's creating false chords to come out, hence, falsetto.